Performance Analysis of Leading Application Lifecycle Management Systems for Large Customer Data Environments

The performance of three leading application lifecycle management (ALM) systems (Rally by Rally Software, VersionOne by VersionOne, and JIRA+GreenHopper by Atlassian) was assessed to draw comparative performance observations when customer data exceeds a 500,000-
artifact threshold. The focus of this performance testing was how each system handles a
simulated “large” customer (i.e., a customer with half a million artifacts). A near-identical representative data set of 512,000 objects was constructed and populated in each system in order
to simulate identical use cases as closely as possible. Timed browser testing was performed to gauge the performance of common usage scenarios, and comparisons were then made. Nine tests were performed based on measurable, single-operation events